Check-hook.



ELLIS L. BURK, OF GOODELL, IOWA.

CHE CK-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 11, 1908.

Application filed June 28, 1907. Serial No. 381,298.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLIS L. BURK, citizen of the United States, residing at Goodell, in the county of Hancock and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-"Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in check hooks and has for its primary object to provide a device of this character embodying a novel construction whereby the check rein is held against displacement and is shielded from undue wear.

A further object is to design a simple and inexpensive check hook which is of durable construction and is free from all projections which might engage extraneous objects.

.For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction and the means for effecting the result, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is aperspective view of a check hook embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view. Fig.4 is a vertical sectional View through the hook. I

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

In general the snap hook embodying the present invention comprises a U-shape frame carrying means whereby it can be readily secured in position, and a roller journaled between the two arms of the U-shape frame, the mouth of the frame being closed by overlapping spring guard arms between which the strap or rein is designed to be thrustedge-wise.

Specifically describing the check hook, the

. numeral 1 designates a threaded stud constituting means for securing the hook in posi -,tion upon the saddle, a flange 2 being located at the upper end of the stud- 1. A'neck 3 extends upwardly from the flange 2 and is joined at an intermediate point to a' longitudinal bar 4 constituting one ofthe arms of the U-shape frame of the check hook; A second bar 5, located over the bar 4 and ar ranged approximately parallel thereto, constitutes the opposite arm of the U-shape frame, the two bars having corresponding ends thereon connected by the cross-piece 6.

Journaled between the frame bars'4 and 5 is a roller 7 which is mounted upon a shaft 8 connecting the bars 4 and 5 at a point adj acent the cross-piece 6. The mouth of the U-shape frame is closed bymeans of the overlapping spring arms 9 and 10 projecting laterally from the frame bars 4 and 5 res ectively. Both of the said spring arms 9 an 10 taper toward the extremity thereof and the complete frame is somewhat in the nature of a loop and is free from any objectionable projections. The extremity of the spring arm 9is rovided with thelateral extension 11 whic rojects along the upper frame bar 5 and is l ent. away from the same to facilitate engagement of a check rein or strap with the hook. When applying a strap to the hook,

the same is thrust edge-wise between the two yield to permit the strap to enter the frame where it engages the roller 7. It will thereby be clearly apparent that the strap is locked against dis lacement by means of the spring arms 9 an 10 and is prevented from undue wear by the action of the roller 7. The operation of detaching the strap from the hook is just the reverse of that previously described.

In the practical construction of the check hook, the threaded stud l is made of a sufiicient length to pass through the back pad saddle and receive a nut which is designed to screw tightly against the latter. In order to hold the check rigidly in position and revent rotation of the same the portion of t e stud adjacent the flange 2 is given an angular or square formation and engages a corresponding socket in the saddle.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In a check hook the combination of a pair of parallel bars having corresponding ends connected by across bar, a roller journaled between the parallel frame bars, overlapping spring guard arms projecting laterallyfrom t e opposite ends of the frame bars, the said spring arms being tapered and one of them terminating in a lateral extension projecting along one of the frame bars, and means carried by one of the frame bars for securing the check hook in position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. ELLIS L. BURK. [L. s.] Witnesses:

JNo. BEG, GLENN T. BAKER, 

